ISBN10: 0953652300, ISBN13: 9780953652303, [publisher: Camden Miniature Steam Services, 2000] Hardcover The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
[Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2000]

Hardback. Good. ISBN 0953652300 9780953652303 [GB]

Somerset: Camden Miniature Steam Services. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Date: 2000. First English Edition; First Printing. Hardcover with dust jacket. 0953652300 . Fine green cloth hardcover, no inscriptions or marks with a fine dust jacket. An excellent copy. Chapelon reviews in detail developments in the design and construction of all the steam locomotive’s major parts, and compares the merits of simple and compound expansion. He then looks, again in detail, at the major standard gauge locomotive designs worldwide of the 20th Century, including his own. Translated from the French by George Carpenter, this edition includes various addenda updating Chapelon’s work to the end of commercial steam, looks at Chapelon’s unbuilt designs, and reviews the work of those who have continued to develop advanced steam locomotives. Superbly illustrated with detailed diagrams of various locomotives with measurements and descriptions, with 475 black & white and some colour illustrations with 13 foldout plates. This is a substantial authoritative and heavy volume. ; Black & white plates and drawings; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 631 pages . 2000. Camden Miniature Steam Services ISBN 0953652300 9780953652303 [GB]

Camden Miniature Steam Services, Date: 2000, 2000. 1st thus. Reprint of 1952 with English translation. 631p. Photos. Line drawings. Oversize. Fine/Fine copy. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Book. 2000. Camden Miniature Steam Services, 2000 ISBN 0953652300 9780953652303 [US]